The 195 Jigawa State students evacuated from war-torn Sudan, studying medical sciences and relocated to India and Cyprus, have started graduating with flying colors.
Speaking while receiving the returning six out of the ten students studying in India on Tuesday, Saidu Magaji, the Executive Secretary of the Jigawa State Scholarship Board, announced that six out of ten students relocated to India from Sudan due to civil unrest have graduated, with four earning a first-class degree in the field of Nursing Bachelor of Science. He said that when the war raged in Sudan , the Jigawa government proactively acted and evacuated 195 students from the country.
The Executive Secretary explained that of the ten students taken to Integral University in India, four are still there, with three studying Doctor of Pharmacy Sciences and one studying Civil Engineering. Meanwhile, the six students who graduated and returned to Nigeria include four female students who graduated with first-class degrees in the field of Bachelor of Nursing Sciences, while the remaining two male students graduated in the field of Industrial Chemistry.
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